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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Rosin flux hard to find?
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 14:19:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 14:19:07 1985
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Have other people doing electronic repair or construction work noticed
that it seems to be difficult to find plain ordinary rosin flux by
itself these days? You can find rosin-core solder everywhere, and it
appears that most hardware stores have acid flux in bottles or some kind
of containers, but not rosin flux. Even Radio Shack has various kinds of
electronic chemicals, and rosin-core solder, but no rosin flux (at least
in the catalog). Having straight flux available makes tinning wires or
soldering to chassis or sheet metal (like circuit-section shields)
easier, so I would think that it should be available to hobbyists, but
it appears to be hard to find. Places like Allied have it in their
catalogs in quart quantities, but a hobbyist would be better off with a
squeeze bottle containing 6 oz or so. Anyone know why it doesn't seem to
be available on the consumer market?

Will Martin

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